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The worse part of skiing is inevitably when, for the fifth time that morning, you crumple, your skis flying in some scientifically impossible direction, and you find yourself left limping over to collect them in boots designed to torture you, all as a line of French children nimbly cut past. Variations on the theme include […]
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An Oxford student has been found dead at the French ski resort of Val-Thorens at the beginning of the joint Oxford-Cambridge Varsity trip. According to The Times, the man was named locally as Matt Smith, a third year history undergraduate at St John’s College, Oxford. A spokesperson for the college told The Times: “We would […]
Continue ReadingStudents who paid extra to fly to the Oxford-Cambridge Varsity ski trip in Tignes have been left stranded in British airports. The disruption came after problems with the internal communications system at the Swanwick air traffic control centre in Hampshire. Students who travelled to the French ski resort by bus arrived several hours ago. One […]
Continue ReadingHundreds of students due to matriculate on Saturday morning faced anxiety over whether they would receive a place on the Varsity ski trip due to a timings conflict between the two Oxford traditions. The decision of event organisers, NUCO, to open booking at 8am on Matriculation Saturday caused havoc for many Freshers, as they were […]
Continue ReadingThe University Proctors have announced that students attending the Varsity trip in Val Thorens this year must not leave College until the end of full term- Saturday 1st December without express permission to do so. In a message sent to Senior Tutors across the University, the Proctors stipulated that students travelling on a commercially (or […]
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